Wakefield-Woodlawn

Neighborhood · Bronx

At the north end of the Bronx, Woodlawn Heights lies between Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery and the Bronx River, while Wakefield stretches east from the Bronx River Parkway; the Westchester County line runs along the northern edge of both.

  • 1.42 square miles
  • 47,657 residents, 2020 Census
  • 264 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 7 bus routes

Wakefield is named for the Virginia plantation where George Washington was born, saw moderate growth after the New York and Harlem Railroad arrived around 1840 and became part of New York City in 1895. Woodlawn Heights, with Katonah Avenue as its main street, is a largely Irish American neighborhood, while Wakefield, served by the 2 train's Wakefield–241st Street station, has drawn large Caribbean and Guyanese communities since the 1980s.

Sources: Wakefield, Bronx (Wikipedia); Woodlawn Heights, Bronx (Wikipedia); About (Bronx Community Board 12).

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Wakefield-Woodlawn borders four areas, and Barnes Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 25 of 264.

Street map of Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx, outlined among Williamsbridge-Olinville, Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Woodlawn Cemetery and Van Cortlandt Park, with its three subway stations and Wakefield Playground.Eastchester-Edenwald-BaychesterWilliamsbridge-OlinvilleWoodlawn CemeteryVan Cortlandt Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Wakefield-241 St lines 2
  • Nereid Av lines 2 5
  • 233 St lines 2 5 accessible

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Wakefield-Woodlawn.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 5 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx16
  • Bx31
  • Bx34
  • Bx39
  • T117

Express bus routes

  • BxM4
  • BxM11

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Bronx corner.

  • 1,516 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.7 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 27 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 34 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Leading pedestrian intervals
17
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 24,835 school-zone speed camera tickets at 17 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
East 233rd Street & Katonah Avenue, 14,621

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 47,657 residents in Wakefield-Woodlawn, about 33,600 per square mile.

  • 18,601 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,178 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,270 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 60% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
1.1 acres of Wakefield Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Wakefield-Woodlawn

Streets and trees

Trees
4,078 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Barnes Avenue, with 25 of the area's 264
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and two libraries in Wakefield-Woodlawn.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
3
Libraries
Wakefield Library and Woodlawn Heights Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 888 major felonies at places in Wakefield-Woodlawn.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Wakefield-Woodlawn

  • 821 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,187 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Wakefield-Woodlawn, the NYPD recorded another 117 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 21.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Wakefield-Woodlawn.

Map of Wakefield-Woodlawn: 16 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Wakefield-Woodlawn, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Wakefield-Woodlawn, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Wakefield-Woodlawn are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Wakefield-Woodlawn and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
47th
Major felonies recorded at places in Wakefield-Woodlawn, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 354 major felonies at places in Wakefield-Woodlawn, against 442 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.